Re: War Celebrations

Cynic <cynic_999@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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....

I can't imagine how I missed this very interesting thread ... must have
started when I was off-line ...

So why draw a line at going just one step further back and bombing the
places that supply the raw materials to the factories that make the
goods that the soldiers need to fight the war?

And why draw a line at weapons? The soldier needs food and water just
as much as weapons, so it must be just as acceptable to bomb farms,
reservoirs and food factories as it is to bomb weapons factories.
Soldiers in a battlefield also need frequent medical attention, so it
must be legitimate to cut off that supply as well, by targetting
ambulances and field hospitals (which are handily supplied with a
large red aiming point). And obviously targetting the labour that
supplies them by killing doctors and nurses in the city hospitals as
well.

Absolutely, from a military persepective the best place to start (after
destroying the air defence capacity of the target nation. would be the
hospitals, water plants, energy centres transport and the like before
attacking housing. Ideally this would be done at the start of winter -
or the start of the monsoon etc. The use of delayed action weapons to
kill and injure rescue workers and of course help prevent rebuilding.
The next stage of course would be food and the production of raw
materials production before moving on to manufaturing centres ... all
the time revisiting the earlier targets to prevent rebuilding ...

Once the population is beginning to starve and die through illness or
exposure. The transport system is shagged and the capacity of the nation
to support and replenish its military then and only then is the time to
start on the military proper.

I wrote quite a good paper on the above once ... I'll have to see if
there's still an on-line version available.

Of course all of the above is subject to the political being present and
the actual objectives of the conflict. My enemy's friend is my enemy and
all that ...

--
Regards or otherwise,

Periander
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